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* LieBackAndThinkOfEngland: [[spoiler:Vera when raped by Zeca, and again when lying with Robert, in order to earn both men's trust so he could escape]].
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* StockholmSyndrome: [[spoiler:Vicente does a phenomenal job of faking this.]]
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* AttractiveBentGender: [[spoiler:Vera is a man, but looks very beautiful female after his forced sex reassignment.]]

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* AttractiveBentGender: [[spoiler:Vera is a man, but looks very beautiful female after his forced sex reassignment. Zeca and Robert are both very attracted to him.]]

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* AllMenArePerverts: Zeca and Vicente. Norma and Vera have to learn it the hard way.
** This trope is ultimately fulfilled by [[spoiler: Robert]] as well.
* AloneWithThePsycho: Vera with Zeca.

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* AllMenArePerverts: %%* AllMenArePerverts:
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Zeca and Vicente. Norma and Vera have to learn it the hard way.
** %%** This trope is ultimately fulfilled by [[spoiler: Robert]] as well.
* %%* AloneWithThePsycho: Vera with Zeca.



* AttractiveBentGender: [[spoiler:Vera is a man.]]

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* AttractiveBentGender: [[spoiler:Vera is a man.man, but looks very beautiful female after his forced sex reassignment.]]



* BecomingTheMask: [[ZigZaggingTrope Played with]] and [[spoiler: ultimately subverted with Vicente/Vera]].

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* %%* BecomingTheMask: [[ZigZaggingTrope Played with]] and [[spoiler: ultimately subverted with Vicente/Vera]].



* BlackAndGrayMorality: There is not one innocent party in the plot, except [[spoiler:Vicente's mom]].

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* %%* BlackAndGrayMorality: There is not one innocent party in the plot, except [[spoiler:Vicente's mom]].



* BrokenBird: Vera. Finding out why and how is the crux of the plot.
* CainAndAbel: Robert and [[spoiler: Zeca.]]

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* %%* BrokenBird: Vera. Finding out why and how is the crux of the plot.
* %%* CainAndAbel: Robert and [[spoiler: Zeca.]]



* DisproportionateRetribution: This movie might as well be called DisproportionateRetribution: TheMovie.
* TheDogBitesBack: Vera[[spoiler:/Vicente]] [[spoiler: killing Robert]] at the end of the movie.

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* %%* DisproportionateRetribution: This movie might as well be called DisproportionateRetribution: TheMovie.
* %%* TheDogBitesBack: Vera[[spoiler:/Vicente]] [[spoiler: killing Robert]] at the end of the movie.



%% * KarmicTransformation: [[spoiler: At least according to Robert.]]
%% * KnightTemplarParent: And ''how''.



%% * KarmicTransformation: [[spoiler: At least according to Robert.]]
%% * KnightTemplarParent: And ''how''.



** Robert's breakthroughs in artificial skin are hailed as nigh-miraculous, until he confides with his superiors that he's using transgenic material from pigs (the animal with tissues closest to humans') to manufacture it. He's immediately chastised for it, since not only is it ''illegal'' and banned by the European scientific community, but because it's "unethical."

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** Robert's breakthroughs in artificial skin are hailed as nigh-miraculous, until he confides with his superiors that he's using transgenic material from pigs (the animal with tissues closest to humans') to manufacture it. He's immediately chastised for it, since not only is it ''illegal'' and banned by the European scientific community, but because it's "unethical.""unethical".



* SituationalSexuality: [[spoiler: Vicente is a very heterosexual man, who is abducted and subjected to forced sexual reassignment surgeries that give him the appearance of an exquisitely beautiful woman. He eventually realizes that his only chance of escape is to (very, ''very'' reluctantly) use this to his advantage, forcing him to give in to the sexual advances of Zeca, a homicidal brute, and Robert, his deranged captor.]]

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* SituationalSexuality: SituationalSexuality:
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[[spoiler: Vicente is a very heterosexual man, who is abducted and subjected to forced sexual reassignment surgeries that give him the appearance of an exquisitely beautiful woman. He eventually realizes that his only chance of escape is to (very, ''very'' reluctantly) use this to his advantage, forcing him to give in to the sexual advances of Zeca, a homicidal brute, and Robert, his deranged captor.]]
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* AbductionIsLove: Played with, [[spoiler: but in the end brutally subverted.]]

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* AbductionIsLove: Played with, [[spoiler: but in the end brutally subverted.]]
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* AbductionIsLove: Played with, [[spoilers: but in the end brutally subverted.]]

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* AbductionIsLove: Played with, [[spoilers: [[spoiler: but in the end brutally subverted.]]
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* AbductionIsLove: Played with, then thankfully subverted.

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* AbductionIsLove: Played with, then thankfully [[spoilers: but in the end brutally subverted.]]
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* SiblingYinYang: What Marilia initially says Robert and Zeca have, with one child being bright and obedient and growing up to be a famous doctor, and the other going off to deal drugs at age ''seven'' and turning out as a killer and robber. However, by her own admission, [[spoiler:[[NotSoDifferent they are both monsters]], they just expressed it in different ways]].

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* SiblingYinYang: What Marilia initially says Robert and Zeca have, with one child being bright and obedient and growing up to be a famous doctor, and the other going off to deal drugs at age ''seven'' and turning out as a killer and robber. However, by her own admission, [[spoiler:[[NotSoDifferent [[spoiler:[[NotSoDifferentRemark they are both monsters]], they just expressed it in different ways]].
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Sex is biological, gender is not


* {{Determinator}}: Vicente's mother, and [[spoiler:Vicente himself, who hung on to his personality and the hope of release for over ''six years'' of forced gender-affirmative treatments]].

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* {{Determinator}}: Vicente's mother, and [[spoiler:Vicente himself, who hung on to his personality and the hope of release for over ''six years'' of forced gender-affirmative sex-change treatments]].



* RashomonStyle: At a friend's wedding, Robert finds evidence that his daughter [[spoiler:was dragged into the dark and raped]]. Much later on, Vicente's flashback shows that [[spoiler:(although his actions were irresponsible) he didn't go all the way. Too bad for him that he was too high to ''remember'' what actually happened that night when his life - or as it turned out, his physical gender - depended on it]].

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* RashomonStyle: At a friend's wedding, Robert finds evidence that his daughter [[spoiler:was dragged into the dark and raped]]. Much later on, Vicente's flashback shows that [[spoiler:(although his actions were irresponsible) he didn't go all the way. Too bad for him that he was too high to ''remember'' what actually happened that night when his life - or as it turned out, his physical gender sex - depended on it]].

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